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There are currently five first-team players sidelined and the lack of clarity over their return dates has angered and confused many fans, as well as head coach Marco Silva, who claims he does not know when he will have them available.

In their first year back in the Premier League, when Collinge was still at the club, the Hornets had one of the best injury records in the league. Since his departure they have had one of, if not the worst.

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At the time, reports said Giorgio Gasparini was taking over Collinge's role, whilst South African Gavin Benjafield was brought in over the summer as performance director, to oversee the sports science and physio department. He left the club barely two months into the season.

Collinge's case will be heard at Employment Tribunal, where Watford are expected to argue that the reason he left was due to employing a permanent doctor, and that it was not a discriminatory matter.